Author: Alright, this is a pathetically short chapter. Why? Because it was originally supposed to be part of the next chapter, which is getting pretty long as it is.
Just think of this as "Operation Rescue" part 1.
13
"The Plan"
I looked up at the blue sky from the place where I stayed. I was notified the night before that they've managed to get the locators on our digivices working again. But we didn't need those now, the Dark Masters have surrounded the building according to them. They knew this was going to happen. Still, we now have a new friend on our side.
"Hiya, Taichi!" the red haired girl greeted enthusiastically, with a small white and blue digimon on her shoulder.
"Hi," I smiled back, trying to hide most of my bandages. "Just call me Tai. You must be Barbara."
"That's right! You can just call me Supergirl!"
"As if," I sat up from the bed, parts of me still ached though from that fight. "Listen, I need to know something. What are you going to do now?"
"What do you think?" she stood strongly, proud.
"You're right," I rubbed my hair. "That was a stupid question. But are you a Tamer or a Digidestined?"
"What do you mean?"
I took a deep breath, "From what I heard, you're a human from this world, but you got your digimon in our world. Your digivice looks like mine yet you can BioMerge. On second thought, you made your digivice, it wasn't given to you. You weren't chosen to fight with us, you chose to fight with us."
"I've gotta be me, Tai. Nothing more, nothing less."
"I guess I already knew how this would turn up from what TK and Yamaki told me. But still, it was nice meeting you." I raised my hand.
"You have now idea how excited I am to not only meet the real digidestined, but to fight along side them too!" she grabbed my hand with both of hers. "With me on your side, there's nothing we can't handle!"
The doorbell rings. Alice ghosts her head through the door to find out who it is.
"It's TK, Barbara and the Tamers."
I went over to open the door and let them in. Barbara was holding some big rolled up paper in her hand. I went through the fridge and brought them all a drink, and some food for Guilmon.
"Is that it?" I asked Barbara.
"Yep," she answered smiling. "The map of the building and the surrounding area. Like you asked."
"So how are we going to save them?" Takato asked, straight to the point, focused on the objective yet cares for his friends. He's going to make a great leader someday. He started pointing at four points that were just outside the building. "Piedmon's here, Machinedramon's here, MetalSeadramon's here and Puppetmon's here."
"Not to mention we still don't have any idea where the other digidestined are exactly," Barbara did mention that something was blocking the dimensional tear from getting too close. "They could be anywhere in that building."
"Can't you guys just teleport into the building and take them out?" Terriermon pointed out the easy way. I had considered that, but there was too many things wrong with this scene.
"No," I blatantly answered. "These guys aren't stupid, there has to be a trap in there somewhere. Once we get caught in it, the Dark Masters will come crashing down on us and everybody else from all four directions."
"Not only that," Barbara added. "But the gate won't work around that building. We need to be about half a mile away for the gate to work properly."
"Why is that?" Ryo asked her.
"We think that the Dark Masters might have something to do with it," she answered. "Machinedramon might have found a way to disrupt our dimensional warping. Luckily for us they haven't spread it out all over the city."
"So what do you think we should do?" Henry questioned.
"Isn't it obvious?" Rika took the words right out of my mouth. "We need to lure the Dark Masters away from the building, then we can rescue the digidestined."
"And what's the plan for that?" Barbara butted in.
"We fight them," Ryo, he's got a good sense. "Isn't that right Tai?"
"Yeah, that's right." I moved in to point at where each of the Dark Masters are. "What I want was to have one person fight and lure away the one Dark Master, while a small group goes into the building and find the digidestined."
"Four one on one Mega level battles?" Patamon floated just above the map.
"Sounds like fun," Cyberdramon pouched his hand.
"So," Renamon stepped forward. "Have you already chosen who goes where?"
"Mostly," I raised my head to face the group. "I'll be leading the group myself. TK, since Patamon can't warp digivolve to Mega, I want you two to come with me. Rika, Renamon's stealth will be really helpful in our search around the building. Barbara, at the moment you don't have that much experience."
"Hey!" she cried out, I expected this. "I've had years of training! I'm an Olympic hopeful! And I took out several digimon by myself."
"Several Champions and handful of Ultimates," I corrected her. "You haven't taken on a Mega level yet, and these Mega's are some of the strongest I've seen. That's why I want you to come with us. The rest of you, choose your enemy."
"Hey Henry!" Terriermon went up to his partner's shoulder. "Let's take Puppetmon! We'll be able to stomp him easily."
"I don't know…" Henry was in deep thought.
"Puppetmon's too small a target for someone your size," Ryo stated. "And he'll be hard to hit with your missiles. I'll take him."
"Well fine then," Terriermon didn't sound pleased.
"Well then," Impmon jumped on the table. "I guess I'll just call MetalSeadramon! Since I'm smaller then him I'll be hard to hit!"
"Sorry Terriermon," Henry apologized to his partner. "I guess this means we've got Machinedramon."
"Then that means I've got Piedmon," Takato mumbled out loud.
"Don't worry Takato," Guilmon went over to his partner. "I know we can do it."
"Yeah, we can do it boy!"
I actually kind of hoped that he would be the one to fight Piedmon. Piedmon's the strongest of the four and Takato's the only one other then Impmon that can mode change into something stronger. I just know he'll be able to do it.
"Just remember," I cautioned them. "If things get too rough, get out of there and return to this world. But be careful not to send the Dark Masters though as well. We start this rescue tomorrow, rest up, we need to be at our very best for this to go smoothly. We can't afford any mistakes. 3!" I stretched my hand above the table.
"2!" Takato, TK, Henry, Rika, Ryo and Barbara (and finally Alice but no one can see her) placed their hands on top of my own.
"1!" Patamon, Guilmon, Terriermon, Renamon, Cyberdramon, Impmon and Lunamon put their hands on top of ours.
"DIGIMON!"
Author: Apologies if that last little bit sounded, strange or corny. Anyway, next chapter begins the operation. Terriermon and Henry vs Machinedramon, Cyberdramon and Ryo vs Puppetmon, Impmon vs MetalSeadramon and Takato and Guilmon vs Piedmon.
However, is that really all? Do the Dark Masters have another trick up their sleeve or will this rescue go just as planned? The next chapter reveals all!
BTW, if you remember from a couple chapters back, something happened to TK's digivice. Keep this in mind for either the next or the chapter after.
